Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) re-hired Maher Bitar, a former White House staffer who used to be a leader of Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that advocates the destruction of Israel, the Breitbart news site reported on Saturday.
Bitar was listed sometime in January as working for Schiff, a moderate Democrat who is Jewish, on LegiStorm, an organization with a website that lists congressional aides and other staff.
Bitar, who had worked for Schiff in the past, left the then-member of the House of Representees’ staff to serve in the Biden administration as the White House coordinator for intelligence and defense policy at the U.S. National Security Council
Bitar also worked to work for UNRWA, which Israel last year said was deeply infiltrated by Hamas.
Before that, he studied at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, writing papers on the nakba, the Arabic-language name for the Arabs’ defeat in their war against Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel in 1948-49, and on “Palestinian” activism, according to Breitbart. He appeared to describe Israel’s Judea and Samaria security barrier as a “segregation wall.”
Students for Justice in Palestine members have been involved in many cases of glorifying terrorism and harassing Jewish students, both before and after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel.
At Tufts University in Massachusetts, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter praised the “creativity” of the Hamas massacre, drawing rebuke from the university administration.
Students for Justice in Palestine internal materials exposed by the Israel on Campus Coalition speak of how the “total return and liberation to Palestine is near …, armed struggle… is legitimate, and all of it is necessary.”
